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Alain De Botton Inspirational Quotes (321)

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The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
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The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.
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Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.
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One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.
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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
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Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
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Life gives us no such handy markers - a storm comes, and far from this being a harbinger of death and collapse, during its course a person discovers love and truth, beauty and happiness, the rain lashing at the windows all the while.
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Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.
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The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
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The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
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Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.
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Intimacy is the capacity to be rather weird with someone - and finding that that's ok with them.
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You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them.
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A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.
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The only way to be happy is to realise how much depends on how you look at things
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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.
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Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
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We need a home in the psychological sense as much as we need one in the physical: to compensate for a vulnerability. We need a refuge to shore up our states of mind, because so much of the world is opposed to our allegiances. We need our rooms to align us to desirable versions of ourselves and to keep alive the important, evanescent sides of us.
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We envy only those whom we feel ourselves to be like we envy only members of our reference group. There are few successes more unendurable than those of our close friends.
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Anxiety is the handmaiden of contemporary ambition.
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Rather than saying 'I hate mess', it might draw more compassion to say, 'mess terrifies me as a harbinger of catastrophe'.
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Literature deserves its prestige for one reason above all others - because it's a tool to help us live and die with a little bit more wisdom, goodness, and sanity.
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